Let’s start with the good news.
Statistics Canada reported Friday that the Canadian economy grew by 3.3% on an annualized basis in the second quarter (April to June) of this year, its best performance since 2023 and highest in the G7.
The federal agency also revised an earlier finding that the economy contracted by 0.1% in the first quarter (January to March) to a 0.3% increase.
The National Association of Christian Lawmakers and its partners asked the administration to direct the State Department and Department of Homeland Security to develop “lawful, secure, and appropriately expedited pathways” for eligible Jewish Canadian nationals and their immediate family members.
h/t Mauser
There have been tariffs and countertariffs, negotiations and breakdowns, “Lake America” and an invitation to kiss the Premier of Ontario’s posterior.
Since Prime Minister Mark Carney walked away from an unpalatable trade agreement with the United States, the two countries are again engaged in a tense standoff, and there is little indication about what will happen next.
The federal government is asking a court to toss out a high-profile environmental lawsuit, arguing that it’s not required to update Canada’s climate plan to meet national emissions reduction targets.
The government also says it’s not the court’s role to make or direct climate policy, and has filed a motion asking the court to strike the case before it goes to full hearings.
Must be interfering in Carney’s profiteering.
🚨 BREAKING
One of our international speakers, Charlie Downes @cfdownes_ has been detained at the US border en route to DOMCON26.
Charlie was scheduled to travel directly to Canada from London yesterday, but the IRCC "reopened" his electronic travel authorization at the last… pic.twitter.com/DyGW4AWoAy
— Dominion Society of Canada (@DominionSoc) August 28, 2026
h/t Mauser
The flareup in the Canada-U.S. tariff war has not only strengthened Ottawa’s resolve to boost military co-operation with Europe and Asia — it’s also hurting prospects of major military purchases from the United States.
In an interview, the head of the Defence Investment Agency says the Canadian public would have no appetite for sole-source military contracts to American firms.
CALGARY — On the eve of the Dominion Society of Canada’s nationalist conference in Hamilton, Ontario, local police are facing accusations of political interference after releasing an announcement asking venues in the city to report any new bookings for the convention after its original venue backed out.
Hamilton Police are aware the Dominion Club of Canada continues to seek an alternate Hamilton venue for its DomCon conference on Aug 29. Anyone with information about a recent venue booking in #HamOnt is asked to contact police at 905-546-4707. Read More: https://t.co/2EsZqa7YzG
— Hamilton Police (@HamiltonPolice) August 27, 2026
They’ve disallowed comments for some reason.
WTF?
In February, 2025, I met with a delegation of Canadian ministers visiting Washington, D.C. Their aim was to convince the Trump Administration, at the outset of its second term, of the virtues of collaboration and coöperation, even though President Trump had already signalled his intent to target a large number of Canadian exports for new tariffs. François-Philippe Champagne, then Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry, stressed to me how difficult it would be to untangle the American and Canadian economies—enmeshed, as they are, in supply chains that run back and forth across the border and which were built on deeply held assumptions of mutual benefit. “If you want to achieve that vision of the ‘golden age’ of America,” Champagne said, quoting a tagline that Trump often deployed at the time, but which he rarely uses today, “If you want to make life more affordable for Americans, if you want to be more innovative, more competitive, Canada is not a problem. Canada is part of the solution.”
We are not a Euro-state and so forbidden from membership.
Even if considered a separation referendum for all of Canadian provinces should be mandatory.
So close, and yet so far. Only last week, Canada and the US were finally on the cusp of reaching a long awaited trade deal. Already Trump had announced the joyous news on Truth Social, already Canadian prime minister Mark Carney had celebrated securing the “best terms” for Canada and called for provinces to lift the ban on US alcohol.
Then, somehow, defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory. Late last Friday, Carney told Canadian negotiators to walk away, saying Washington was offering “a bad deal.” Trump promptly reimposed the 50 percent tariffs on goods imported from Canada that had been put on hold pending the signing of the deal. On Tuesday, August 25, Carney announced dollar-for-dollar retaliation, in what some are calling “the dumbest trade war in history.”
Carney has cynically stoked fear of America
I have been in the home building industry for more than thirty years, and I have lost count of how many times I have been told the walls between our provinces are coming down. Last time, I almost let myself believe it. In the spring of 2025, Mark Carney put a date on it, and a date is something I can work with. Free trade by Canada Day. That was July 1, 2025.
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OTTAWA — Austrian anti-immigrant speaker Martin Sellner says he was not granted an electronic travel authorization in time for a trip to Hamilton to speak at a nationalist conference.
In a video posted on X, Sellner says Canada not granting him permission to enter the country is political persecution, and said Canada is engaging in “silent, ethnic replacement” of its population.
He was scheduled to speak this weekend at a conference in the Hamilton area held by the Dominion Society, an organization advocating for a policy called remigration.
We let IRGC members and other Iran regime officials reside in Canada.
Former Iranian official living in Toronto was ‘critical’ to terror finance, CBSA alleges
Sellner is not my cup of tea, we have far better proponents for immigration reform. Banning him is the wrong thing to do.
That said Canada is rotten with Islamist entryism. Our so called national broadcaster is a propaganda outlet for Muslim terrorists. And the LPC is as bad.
Read what @HamiltonPolice published here. A request that citizens report “a recent venue booking”… a booking by a lawful organization, for a lawful conference, with no offence alleged anywhere in the statement.
Police services exist to uphold the Rule of Law by investigating… https://t.co/1HhHVZvnPM
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) August 28, 2026
Like a fox trying to bring down a moose, Canada’s retaliation against the latest U.S. tariffs is a classic case of asymmetrical warfare.
That’s because the U.S. economy is about 12 times larger than Canada’s, says economist Trevor Tombe.
“It’s incredibly hard for a small country to move the needle in aggregate in the United States. That’s why it’s important to zoom in on specific states where possible. But even in these heavily affected states, the effects are small,” he said.
SAN DIEGO — A sworn FBI affidavit unsealed Wednesday describes a seven-year investigation into a Chinese hacking operation that targeted NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Department of Energy, the Justice Department, the National Institutes of Health and, this year, the United States Senate.
The filing says payments from China’s Ministry of State Security to Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Co. indicate that the private company conducted malicious cyber operations for Beijing. Some of its hackers were former members of the People’s Liberation Army who used their military connections to obtain contracts and subcontracts for offensive cyber operations.
Muslim Brotherhood-aligned networks have gained influence across Canadian government, universities, charities and political organizations, according to a new report warning that Islamist groups are exploiting democratic institutions to expand their reach.
The 195-page report from the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, or ISGAP, examines what it calls “Islamist entryism,” a strategy of gaining influence within established institutions.
Conservatives want the Liberals to release the rejected U.S. trade deal. Should they?
Conservatives are calling on the Liberals to release the text of the U.S. tariff agreement that the federal government ultimately rejected last week. While one expert argues there is some merit to showing that level of transparency for the sake of national unity, others suggest it would ultimately hurt Canada’s negotiation position.
U.S. President Donald Trump slapped 50 per cent tariffs on hundreds of Canadian imports over the weekend after negotiators failed to secure some form of trade agreement — even though there were indications that progress was being made.
